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B2Bportales is now part of Publicar
Bogota, October 15, 2009. As part of Carvajal S.A.’s strategic plan, which includes maximizing synergies between its companies, B2Bportales, the largest publishing company of trade media in Latin America, is now part of Publicar S.A., regional leader in information services.
Maria Sol Navia, President of Publicar S.A. commented: “Publicar is constantly diversifying its products and services. As a result of this strategy, which now includes the incorporation of B2Bportales to our business, we have developed a vast portfolio of solutions that, without a doubt, allows our users and clients to find the best tools to meet their information and networking needs.”
David Ashe, President of B2Bportales mentioned: “The access B2Bportales gains to the resources and markets of a company the size of Publicar will certainly generate business opportunities in the B2B sector, and will also generate new ways to meet the information and networking needs of our users and advertisers in the ever-changing trade media publishing space.”
Publicar is the leading independent yellow pages and local search company in the region, with presence in 8 Latin American countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panamá, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. It also provides online local search information in 15 Latin American countries through PaginasAmarillas.com: Its sites in Portuguese and Spanish are the portals with the highest number of queries in Latin America. Focusing on the generation of commercial contacts, Publicar has also diversified in the direct marketing field through Contact Center Americas and Contacto Inteligente and publishes a line of specialized trade directories. For more information, please visit: www.publicar.com.
B2Bportales publishes ten print and Internet publications with pan regional coverage in Latin America. The product portfolio includes Artes Gráficas, Conversión, El Empaque, El Hospital, Laboratorio y Análisis, Metalmecánica, Petróleo Internacional, Reportero Industrial, Tecnología del Plástico and TV y Video. In addition, B2Bportales publishes Supermercado Moderno in Brazil with its partner Grupo Lund, and NEI (Noticiario de Equipamentos Industriáis), in partnership with the Grupo Lund and Thomas Publishing Company.
Carvajal S.A. is a 105 year-old Latin American multinational leader in publishing, printing and packaging, with over 20,000 employees and plants in 17 Latin American countries, USA, Spain andChina. For more information, please visit: www.carvajal.com.
8 international speakers confirmed their participation at the II Spanish seminar for Latin-American plastic professionals at NPE 2009
Miami, FL, USA, April 30, 2009. Tecnología del Plástico and Conversión, publications of B2Bportales, will offer the second NPE 2009 Latin-American seminar in Spanish for plastic resins transformers, which will take place during the NPE show, in Chicago, on June 23, 24 and 25.
The objective of this event is to give Latin-American visitors specific market oriented information in their native language, making their visit to Chicago more efficient. Also, enabling them to obtain punctual ideas in order to make their processes and products more competitive.
The expert speakers, which will offer more than 15 conferences grouped in three sessions, will present specific examples of new technologies and applications and provide parameters to take investment decisions when adopting new technologies and materials. The key topics include: strategies for energy saving, technological trends for the production of material packaging and mold injection products, sustainability, design, success cases in Latin America, new products development opportunities and nanocompounds and biodegradable materials.
The confirmed speakers up to date are: Ph.D. Maria del Pilar Noriega, technical director of ICIPC (Institute of Training and Development of Plastic and Rubber); Ph.D. Alberto Rincon, sales manager and cast extrusion product manager for Macro Engineering & Technology; Ph.D. Carlos Serrano, plastic packaging design and development consultant; Ph.D. Marcello D. Villahoz, in charge of new business development, sales and marketing management for various international companies through Mitsui in Latin America; Francisco Alarcon, general manager for Plásticos Ecuatorianos S.A and president of Aliplast, Latin American association of plastics producers; Santiago Archila, manager for the area of advisory services for Husky Injection and Molding Systems; Raul Arias, senior consultant for Latin America’s chemical industry for Nexat, Inc., and Germán Laverde, Latin American sales director for Gloucester Engineering. At the end of each session, industry suppliers will give 10 minute presentations about specific products and applications for the Latin American market.
For detailed information about the speakers and academic program please visit: www.plastico.com/seminarios/npe09/
First Seminar Targeting Latin America Graphic Arts Professionals at PRINT 2009
Miami, FL, USA, April 30, 2009. B2Bportales' publications Artes Gráficas and Conversión, and Print organization, join efforts to launch the first Spanish seminar to take place during the international trade show PRINT 2009 in Chicago, with the title: "Strategies that would lead you to success in the next decade." Latin American professionals will have access to prime conferences by worldwide renowned consultants, translated to their language, on September 12th and 13th, 2009.
This seminar was designed to offer graphic professionals the strategic vision and knowledge of the tools that would allow them to expand their businesses, integrating new technologies to make their companies more competitive in markets that offer growth opportunities.
The program will include the following sessions:
1. The future markets for graphic arts products;
2. Develop your digital printing business;
3. Strategies for a sustainable and successful development in the graphic industry;
4. The best skills to reduce waste in the plant.
The conferences, addressed to Graphic arts and converting professionals, managers, directors, sales and marketing professionals, production and operations managers, prepress professionals and graphic designers, will be carried out by recognized industry consultants like Frank Romano, Emeritus Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT; Howard Fenton, Technologies Consultant, National Association of Printing Leadership, NAPL; Gary Jones, Director of Environmental Control, Health and Industrial Safety, Printing Industries of America, PIA, and Raymond Prince, Vice President and Consultant in Operations Management, NAPL.
To learn about the academic program, dates and prices of the seminars, and to register on-line, please visit: www.artesgraficas.com/seminarios/print09. Suppliers interested in sponsoring the event and participating in a supplier-panel can contact your Sales Representative for more details. USA/Canada suppliers must contact Carolina Sanchez at csanchez@artesgraficas.com. International suppliers must contact their international reps through www.artesgraficas.com/mediakit/sales_reps.
This event is possible thanks to the Goss International sponsorship.
Tecnología del Plástico and Conversión Magazines Launch Technical Seminars In Spanish During NPE 2009
Miami, FL, USA, January 02, 2009. B2Bportales’ magazines Tecnología del Plástico and Conversión, and the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) join efforts once more to launch the seminar "Trends, opportunities and technologies to improve the competitiveness of the Latin American plastics industry", during the international trade show NPE 2009. This is the second time that NPE presents a technical and business seminar series 100% in Spanish, addressed to Spanish speaking professionals who visit the show. The seminar will be held during the morning hours of June 23, 24 and 25, 2009.
The seminar was designed to provide up-to-date information focusing on the Latin American market. The program will include the following sessions: 1. Sustainability and Efficient Production; 2. Manufacturing of Flexible Packaging; and 3. Market Opportunities for Bulk Molded Products. The first session offers useful tools to raise the competitiveness of the Latin American professionals in the plastics industry, regardless of the transformation processes they use or the markets they serve. The second session includes conferences with the following topics: Industry trends; advances in raw materials and additives to enhance performance; business opportunities that offer solutions for high performance flexible packaging; developments in processing technologies and success stories. The last session looks to provide information for injection and blow molders in Latin America to help them access specialized markets. These topics will be addressed by professional consultants, technology experts or specialized scholars. Some of them can have commercial bonds with companies that provide plastics transformation technologies. All presentations will focus in current market trends, challenges and success stories. This seminar also counts with the support of the Flexible Packaging Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), entity that has a strong tradition as a leading generator of high-level technical information for all sectors of the plastics transformation industry.
Alfredo Domador, Executive Director of the seminar, commented: "The academic program in Spanish presented for the first time in NPE 2006 was a success. At that time we welcomed more than 160 Latin American visitors in the three sessions combined and we counted with the support of nine important suppliers who sponsored the event. It should be noted that visitors and suppliers who participated in 2006 expressed their desire to participate again in a second edition, reason why Tecnología del Plástico, Conversión and SPI decided to launch a second and enhanced academic program in NPE 2009. We are very pleased to announce that at this early stage we already count with nine suppliers that confirmed their support as sponsors, an early and positive sign that promises a greater participation and success for this second seminar edition."
To evaluate the academic program, dates and prices, and to register on-line, or via fax, please visit: www.plastico.com/seminarios/npe09. As a way to thank our pioneer attendees, the organizers are extending a 10% discount to those professionals who participated in the Spanish seminars at NPE 2006.
The event is made possible by the sponsorship of the following suppliers: Arkema, Asaclean, Conair, D-M-E, Gloucester Engineering Co, Macro Engineering, Milacron Inc, Motan and Pillar Technologies.
Digital TV Seminar Exceeded All Expectations
Bogotá, Colombia, (October 01, 2008).
With the announcement of a new version in 2009, the consolidation of business contacts and an effective experiences exchange, ended the first Seminar & Exhibition (Almost) Stress Free DTV, organized by B2Bportales' publication TVyVideo.
Supported by an international attendance of over 180 industry professionals, exhibitors, and special guests, the seminar featured an academic program focused on Perspectives of digital Television in Latin America; Resource Management in TV; Optimization of channel’s tools; Mobile Television applications and trends; How to use the latest technology for High-Definition television, among other topics. The seminar’s objective was achieved and the decision to launch the second version in 2009 has been approved.
Exhibitors also consolidated new business contacts and some reported to have closed sales during the event. According to them, the high profile of attendants, the location of the exhibitors’ area, and the variety of products, were keys to success at the event.
(Almost) Stress Free DTV seminar 2009 version promises more interaction with visitors, production workshops and the attendance of speakers with the same knowledge and experience than those present this year.
Carvajal's B2Bportales partners with Brazil's Lund Publishing
Group
The alliance seeks to accelerate the group's growth in the Latin
American B2B market
São Paulo (August 15, 2007).
The Carvajal Organization, a Latin American multinational that
operates in 18 countries, has just completed negotiations to acquire
a majority shareholding in the Grupo Lund de Editoras Asociadas
(Lund Publishing Group) of Brazil. The association will take place
through the B2Bportales Company, which is part of the Grupo Editorial
Norma, a member of the Carvajal Organization.
The new association consolidates Carvajal's growth within the
business publications market in Brazil and Latin America. The
publishers of the Grupo Lund, with 47 years of experience in the
Brazilian market, have 30% of the Business to Business (B2B) magazine
and publications market in the industrial area and in retail sales,
with three of the sector's most important publications: Supermercado
Moderno (Modern Supermarket) magazine aimed at the retail
market, and in a joint venture with Thomas International Publishing
Co., NEI (Noticiário de Equipamentos Industriais)
magazine and the annual Guia-NEI, aimed at the industrial
market. These three publications reach 220,000 qualified readers
and serve 1,200 advertisers, including Internet and CD-ROM versions.
NEI was launched in 1973 to reach the growing Brazilian industrial
segment, through a joint venture between Grupo Lund and Thomas
International Publishing Co. Thomas, founded in 1898, is one of
the world's most respected B2B publishers, with a presence in
North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
The firm is internationally known for its Thomas Industrial
Network products (successor to Thomas Register of American
Manufacturers), for the Thomas Global Register,
and for IEN (Industrial Equipment News) magazine in its
US and international versions.
"This union of strengths between B2Bportales, the Grupo Lund and
Thomas International Publishing Co. opens a wide range of opportunities
for business expansion in Brazil and in the rest of Latin America.
It is a perfect marriage between strong, traditional and reliable
publishers in the markets where they operate. Through this association,
the resulting organization will manage a larger number of B2B
publications, which will enable us to expand even more the possibilities
for communication and generation of business contacts in the sectors
that we serve", explained David Ashe, president of B2Bportales.
In addition to the publications in this area that B2Bportales
already manages (Metalmecánica, Artes Gráficas, Conversión,
El Empaque, Tecnología del Plástico, El Hospital, Laboratorio
y Análisis, TV y Video, Petróleo Internacional, World Industrial
Reporter and Reportero Industrial), Carvajal will be operating
in the Latin American market with a total of 14 publications dealing
with diverse sectors of industry and trade.
"For the Grupo Lund, a big factor in deciding to create this alliance
was the affinity of values and vision in running the business.
The two organizations have a proud tradition of ethics and social
responsibility while seeking the highest possible quality for
their products and services", according to Cody Lund, president
of Grupo Lund, now associated with Carvajal. “We see this
union as a natural evolution of our 35-year business presence
in Latin America, one that provides outstanding opportunities
for growth throughout the region,” added John Lindsey, President
of Thomas International Publishing Co. "The B2B market grows more
and more promising as the provision of services gains ground in
the world economy, requiring an ever greater number of associations
between companies from different areas. Carvajal in this market
acts to provide quality information to foster the success of B2B
relationships and the growth of organizations. That is why our
alliances place priority on recognized and solid companies like
the Grupo Lund, which has been in the Brazilian market since 1960",
concluded Ashe.
About the Carvajal Organization
The Carvajal Organization is composed of a series of businesses
developed to efficiently address its clients' diverse needs. Today,
Carvajal is a Latin American multinational with more than 20,000
employees throughout the world, with operations in 18 countries
with plant operations in 9 of them, and which exports products
and services to 65 countries. Carvajal is divided into 14 business
groups, which include: provision of administrative services and
support; products and services for education; database-supported
information services, printing, packaging, publishing, internet
commerce services and telecommunications. The Organization is
present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, United States, Guatemala, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and
Venezuela. In Brazil, Carvajal operates the Publicar company (which
publishes telephone directories and yellow pages under the brand
names Editel, Listel and Guía Mais), printing company Cargraphics,
school supply company Caderbrás Bico Internacional, GC2 in the
shared service business, and its call center Contact Center Americas.
About the Grupo Lund de Editoras Asociadas
Founded in 1960 and today employing 220 professionals, Grupo Lund's
publications have a total readership of 220,000 business decision-makers
in the Brazilian market, where it publishes Supermercado Moderno,
the leading publication in food and food service retailing, and
in partnership with the Thomas International Publishing Company,
the Noticiário de Equipamentos Industrias (NEI)
products in magazine, printed guide, online and CD formats.
About Thomas International Publishing Company
Thomas International Publishing Company is the international arm
of Thomas Publishing Co. LLC, based in New York, USA. Thomas has
been active internationally since the early 1970’s, launching
publishing ventures in Europe, Japan and Brazil, and subsequently
in India, Mexico, China, Turkey and other important global markets.
The mission of Thomas for over 100 years has been to provide essential
product and sourcing information to industrial buyers, first in
print directories and periodicals, and since 1995 over the web.
Among the major products of Thomas are ThomasNet, the
internet’s leading industrial vertical site, providing complete
purchasing information about North American suppliers, ThomasGlobal,
the international industrial purchasing destination site, Industrial
Equipment News (US), the original product news tabloid, Inbound
Logistics, the leading publication in the logistics field,
Managing Automation, IEN-Europe, Produits Equipements Industriels
(France), Technische Revue (Germany), IEN-Italy,
IEN-Japan, NEP-Japan and the Thomas Register of Indian
Manufacturers (TRIM).
B2Bportales & Tarsus Publishing announce the premier Spanish
edition of the Illustrated Enciclopedia of Labels and Label Technology
Miami (May 7, 2007).
B2Bportales' magazine Conversión,
and Tarsus Publishing, publishers of the magazine Labels &
Labeling and organizers of the Labelexpo events, joined forces
to make the Spanish language version of the Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Labels and Label Technology, available
to Latin American label converters throughout the region.
The Encyclopedia, originally published in English by Tarsus Publishing,
was first translated into Chinese and Turkish, and now into Spanish,
thanks to an agreement signed between Tarsus Publishing and B2Bportales.
Its author, Briton Michael Fairley, has written about practically
all aspects associated with production and use of labels over
the last 20 years, while actively taking part in technical and
market research that has contributed towards the industry's development.
The book enables common terminology to be used between suppliers,
converters and end-users, standardizes industry language, and
provides an instant reference source on both traditional and new
materials and technology.
This book, whose English version sold for more than US$200, is
being introduced in Latin America for US$150. For selling the
Encyclopedia, B2Bportales opened a showroom, http://www.conversion.com/enciclopedia,
where there is a complete contents description and the required
fields to order the shipment of copies of the Encyclopedia.
B2BPortales Launches Digital Version of Artes Gráficas Magazine
Miami (January 24, 2007)
B2Bportales' magazine Artes Gráficas,
the main source of technical and business information for the
graphic arts industry in Mexico, Central and South America, is
now available in a digital format, powered by NXTbook Media.
Starting with the January 2007 issue, in addition to the circulation
of 22.500 printed copies, the new digital version of the magazine
will be distributed via e-mail, with a link to download and visualize
it on-line, or save it in the hard disk of the user’s computer
for reading offline at his/her leisure. The navigation module
of NXTbook Media has been translated into Spanish, providing a
user-friendly platform that will facilitate users to quickly become
familiarized to this technology.
Alfredo Domador, VP Operations of B2BPortales commented: “Our
readers and advertisers will have access to new and dynamic ways
of communication that will enrich the reading experience of buyers,
facilitating and promoting a more active communication between
buyers and sellers. Some of these new communication/advertising
products include multimedia Flash advertisements, informative/educative
videos, direct links to websites and/or e-mail addresses to request
information from suppliers, and also direct links to our on-line
Reader Service Module".
Launching of the first digital version of Artes Graficas is part
of a B2Bportales' program to make available in this format our
current portfolio of 11 magazines during 2007. New multimedia
advertising products are already available for commercialization.
January'07 edition of Artes Gráficas Digital is already
available at:
www.nxtbook.com/ml/ag/b2bportales/ag0107/index.php.
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